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google : Robert Noyce
google : Robert Noyce
google : Robert Noyce
| <table style="border-collapse: collapse; " height="112" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="19" width="80" align="right">Inventor:</td><td height="19" align="left">Robert Norton Noyce</td><td rowspan="5" width="120" align="center"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse; " height="118" width="118" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; " align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td height="19" width="80" align="right">Criteria:</td><td height="19" align="left">Co-inventor. Entrepreneur.</td></tr><tr><td height="16" width="80" align="right">Birth:</td><td height="16" align="left">December 12, 1927 in Burlington, Iowa</td></tr><tr><td height="19" width="80" align="right">Death:</td><td height="19" align="left">June 3, 1990 in Austin, Texas</td></tr><tr><td height="19" width="80" align="right">Nationality:</td><td height="19" align="left">American</td></tr></table> </td></tr></table> |
| Robert Norton Noyce was born December 12, 1927 in Burlington, Iowa. A noted visionary and natural leader, Robert Noyce helped to create a new industry when he developed the technology that would eventually become the microchip. Noted as one of the original computer entrepreneurs, he founded two companies that would largely shape today’s computer industry—Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.Bob Noyce's nickname was the "Mayor of Silicon Valley." He was one of the very first scientists to work in the area -- long before the stretch of California had earned the Silicon name -- and he ran two of the companies that had the greatest impact on the silicon industry: Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. He also invented the integrated chip, one of the stepping stones along the way to the microprocessors in today's computers. Noyce, the son of a preacher, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He was a physics major at Grinnell College, and exhibited while there an almost baffling amount of confidence. He was always the leader of the crowd. This could turn against him occasionally -- the local farmers didn't approve of him and weren't likely to forgive quickly when he did something like steal a pig for a college luau. The prank nearly got Noyce expelled, even though the only reason the farmer knew about it was because Noyce had confessed and offered to pay for it. While in college, Noyce's physics professor Grant Gale got hold of two of the very first transistors ever to come out of Bell Labs. Gale showed them off to his class and Noyce was hooked. The field was young, though, so when Noyce went to MIT in 1948 for his Ph.D., he found he knew more about transistors than many of his professors. After a brief stint making transistors for the electronics f |